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- Top grads: Countryside High, East Lake High, Oldsmar Christian ... - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools These talented teens juggle advanced classes, community service, extracurricular activities and maintain their school's highest grade point averages. Today we kick off our annual recognition of North Pinellas County's valedictorians and ...
- Reviving the vanishing voice of verse (Cape Cod Times)
WASHINGTON — The judges were primed and the audience expectant. Then 16-year-old Shawntay Henry walked onstage.
- Former AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton dies - Associated Press
Michael Norton (AP) -- who spent nearly two decades covering Haiti's coups, rebellions and disasters for The Associated Press - died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. Norton chronicled the turmoil that followed former dictator Jean ...
- Tilly and the Wall hang onto their whimsy - Tacoma News Tribune
Even though they may be twenty-something indie icons, Omaha’s Tilly and the Wall refuse to grow up. From the conception of their name (after a children’s book by Leo Lionni) to their singalong teen anthems, the five-piece can’t seem to shake ...
- 'The Hip Hop Project' comes to Guam June 28 - Pacific Daily News
'The Hip Hop Project' comes to Guam June 28Pacific Daily News, GU - 2 hours agoHe is the co-founder of Guam's local spoken-word Poetry Slam and a Southern High School teacher. "Hip hop is a musical form born of struggle," Borja said. ...
- Irlam-born poet wins Scot award - Salford Advertiser
Irlam-born poet wins Scot awardSalford Advertiser, UK - 5 minutes agoA SALFORD-born writer has been picked from thousands of entrants around the world as the winner of Scotland‘s prestigious national poetry prize. ...
- Davidson Calendar: May 23-31, 2008 - Nashville Tennessean
The Improv Nashville Show: Improv Nashville performs scenes, games and a one-act play based on audience suggestions. 8 p.m. May 23 and 30, 12th South Arts Venue, 2907 12th Ave. S.; $10; tickets: 418-0905, www.improvnashville.com . Position East ...
- Johann Hari: As life flies on, don't let poetry pass you by (Independent)
I used to think poetry was a rotting art form, waiting only for its own Eleanor Rigby funeral. In an age that gets faster and faster and faster every day – where great gallons of information are spewed all over us constantly – what place was there for these compressed, opaque little patches of words that required us to slow down and incessantly re-read?
- Three Dunedin Writers Named As Finalists In This Year's Montana ... - Channel 9
Three Dunedin Writers Named As Finalists In This Year's Montana ...Channel 9, New Zealand - Jun 10, 2008Three Dunedin writers have been named finalists in this year's Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Laurence Fearnley has been nominated in the fiction section ...
- Live Music to Infuse 'Tis Pity at ACT; Hayden and Augesen Are Taboo - Playbill.com
TheaterMania.comLive Music to Infuse 'Tis Pity at ACT; Hayden and Augesen Are TabooPlaybill.com, NY - 2 hours agoThe Parma, Italy-set story "explores a deadly erotic obsession between siblings Giovanni and Annabella," according to ACT "With clear and gripping poetry, ...Casting Announced for ACT's 'Tis A Pity She's a Whore' Broadway Worldall 3 news articles
- Latitude, Leonard and the mob mind (The New Statesman)
Get out of my country! shouts a young man. A tidal swell of assent and applause fills the comedy tent. I feel nauseous, unnerved by how quickly and completely the crowd has turned
- Classrooms close for the summer - Belmont & Mount Holly BannerNews
Classrooms close for the summerBelmont & Mount Holly BannerNews, CN - 25 minutes agoLiz Ann is now a strong reader who’s also translated her skills into writing, especially poetry. In one of Hovis’ packed boxes, were two of Liz Ann’s poems ...
- The Man Who Has Sex With Cars - Anorak
IT’S stopped snowing on Channel Five. The image has cleared to reveal a burly man having relations with his current “girlfriendâ€. John Prescott? It’s not Chris Donald . No, that’s a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, and Prescott would ...
- Flat-pack furniture and firecrackers - The Observer
Flat-pack furniture and firecrackersThe Observer, UK - 4 hours agoThe opening text is the first verse of 'Aristotle', by the American poet Billy Collins, describing the beginning of a relationship. 'This is the opening, ...
- Authors get rock-star treatment at Brazil festival (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
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